Jellyfin is awesome.
I pay $0/mo in streaming fees, which never ever increase. Storage is cheap and can also back up my family photos. And I've never lost a show or album due to licensing issues.
I acquire as much new media as I want to, and pay nothing if I'm disinterested.
Jellyfin is exactly the media future I expected as a kid, and it's glorious.
@vkc I've been a Plex (and PlexAmp) user for 4 years. Is it worth the effort to switch over? Do you have any videos comparing the two?
@ainmosni@berlin.socialI never used PlexAmp, so can't say anything about it, but I switched over this year. It works a charm, on par with plex, at least for me.
But the main reasons I switched are:
- Plex not working when the internet is down. All my media is on my local network, why do I need internet to watch it:
- Plex definitely saving my media consumption history. As shown by them sending mails to everyone saying what their friends did.
- Local media seems less and less a priority for plex.
@ainmosni @vkc Thanks for the feedback and your reasoning. Appreciate it! Plex not working when the internet goes down is an annoying pain point.
As for the other reasons: you can opt completely out of sharing any history in your account settings (and I encourage my friends to do this). And once you turn off discovery and pin your local media libraries, I never even consider that Plex cares about anything else.
For me the final points are more hints that they are going to enshittify more and more over time. Simply said, I don't trust the company anymore.
@ainmosni @killyourfm @vkc Plex absolutely works when the internet is down. It's just like anything else with security, if it can't auth your login then it doesn't allow you in.
All you need to do is go in to settings and allow your local network or specific IPs to access Plex without auth and it'll work fine when the internet is down.
@FroTheBeard
Tell that you my tv app.
@ainmosni @killyourfm @vkc Works on the Plex AppleTV app. Apps on SmartTVs are generally not very good